Talks (in reverse chronological order)

International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP)
- July 2024, Montréal
- Rectangularity and Duality of Distributionally Robust Markov Decision Processes
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
- Antai College of Economics and Management
- June 2024, Shanghai
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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INFORMS Optimization Society Conference
- March 2024, Houston
- Policy Mirror Descent Inherently Explores Action Space
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Texas A&M University
- Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
- February 2024, College Station
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Engineering Systems and Design Pillar
- February 2024, Singapore
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics
- February 2024, Hong Kong
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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HEC Montreal, Department of Decision Sciences
- Department of Decision Sciences
- February 2024, Montreal
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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Northwestern University
- Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
- January 2024, Evanston
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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The University of Virginia
- Department of Systems and Information Engineering
- January 2024, Charlottesville
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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Texas Tech University
- Department of Industrial, Manufacturing, and Systems Engineering
- January 2024, Lubbock
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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The University of Sydney
- Business Analytics Discipline
- November 2023, Sydney (Wonderful city!)
- Data-driven First-order Methods for Robust Sequential Decision Making
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INFORMS Annual Meeting
- October 2023, Phoenix
- A Novel Catalyst Scheme for Stochastic Minimax Optimization
- Host: Afrooz Jalilzadeh
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INFORMS Annual Meeting
- October 2023, Phoenix
- Stochastic First-order Optimization for Robust Markov Decision Process
- Host: Sajad Khodadadian
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Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications
- August 2023, Lehigh
- Stochastic First-order Optimization for Robust Markov Decision Process
- Host: Caleb Ju
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SIAM Conference on Optimization
- June 2023, Seattle
- Policy Mirror Descent Inherectly Explores Action Space
- Host: Zhaoran Wang, George Lan
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ISyE PhD Student Seminar
- April 2023, Atlanta
- Policy Mirror Descent Inherectly Explores Action Space
- Student host: Xinyu Liu, Sourabh Choudhary
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INFORMS Annual Meeting
- October 2022, Indianapolis
- Homotopic Policy Mirror Descent: Policy Convergence, Implicit Regularization, and Improved Sample Complexity
- Host: Afrooz Jalilzadeh
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International Conference on Continuous Optimization
- July 2022, Lehigh University
- Homotopic Policy Mirror Descent: Policy Convergence, Implicit Regularization, and Improved Sample Complexity
- Host: Ashwin Pananjady
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Annual Conference on Information Sciences and Systems
- March 2022, Online
- Block Policy Mirror Descent
- Host: Yuejie Chi
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Guest Lecture, ISyE 8813
- December 2021, Gatech
- On Implicit Bias of Optimization Algorithms: A New Era of Interpolation
- Host: Tuo Zhao
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Meta Ads Ranking Team
- August 2021, Meta
- Adversarial training — Some Simple Theories and Applications
- Host: Xiaohan Wei
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Machine Learning PhD Student Seminar
- December 2020, Gatech
- Adversarial training — Some Simple Theories and Applications
- Host: Benjamin Wilson, Enpeng Yuan
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Bytedance AML Team
- June 2020, Seattle
- Adversarial training — Some Simple Theories and Applications
- Host: Chong Wang
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